Tag: ECHR

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) – The European Court of Human Rights has rejected that an appeal by Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik who claimed his incarceration in Norway violates his rights. The Strasbourg, France-based court said Thursday the case “doesn’t

President Donald J. Trump has backed the fight to save the critically ill British baby Charlie Grad, saying he would be “delighted” to “help” the boy after a European court ruled his parents could not privately fund a final attempt to treat him.

A European court has ruled that the parents of a critically ill baby cannot privately pay for him to go to the U.S. for “experimental treatment”, and the child must stay in a British hospital to “die with dignity”.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has overruled the decision of an Irish court, preventing the nation from deporting a man alleged to be a prolific recruiter for the Islamic State terror group. The Dublin court had ruled that an unnamed 52-year-old man

Amid wider concerns over freedom of expression and access to information in Turkey, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled the government violated fundamental freedoms when it blocked access to YouTube. Turkey’s violation of the European Convention on Human

The Conservatives are already facing a humiliating climb down over the European Convention on Human Rights as a leading advisor has said it will not be possible to ignore rulings from Strasbourg unless the UK withdraws completely. It means that

David Cameron has ruled out withdrawing Britain from the European Convention on Human Rights, turning the promised repeal of Britain’s Human Rights Act into a mere smokescreen for quietly maintaining the status quo. The Conservatives pledged to replace the Human

A government minister has threatened to quit if the Conservatives go through with their manifesto pledge of scrapping the Human Rights Act and replacing it with a British Bill of Rights. The issue promises to be one of the main dividing

The European Court of Human Rights had ruled the British government has breached the human rights of prisoners by barring them from voting in elections, however it did also say that they are not entitled to compensation. The latest mass